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Seriously.
Ok, let's take Exhibit A, "the double wammy":
No, those are not giant butane lighters coming to fry my entire state :p They're Gustav and Hannah, tropical storms that are gonna be hurricanes soon. Gustav is coming from down by Cuba, that generally makes for pretty mild storms that wind up in the gulf. It will probably hit poor old New Orleans right around the 3rd anniversary of Katrina.
Hannah, though? Exhibit B:
It's the ones that come from way out there in the ocean that get really strong, and that is the path that storms take when they plan on ending up, oh, right about...HERE.
Now, I am not really on about hurricanes the way some people are. I like thunderstorms, I can "camp out" with the whole family and have fun when the power is out. It's a nice excuse to eat a lot of junk food since we have to stock up on non-perishables.
But damnitt I just planted a bunch of flowerbeds! Two days of long hard sweating labor. Now I'm wondering if the brick borders need to come in, and, bah. Bah!
This is just shaping up to be another "all storms all the time" year like we had in 2005, and I don't want to deal with that crap as a homeowner. I mean, ok, we spend almost $5000 a year on insurance and so, ok, I shouldn't have to worry. But what about my belly cast? And our fresh paint jobs and nice furniture and original art? I'm just saying. I also don't want to have to deal with the "do we stay or do we go" dilemma - my personal policy as someone who went right through the eye of Andrew is that I DO NOT stay for a 4 or a 5. 1 or 2s don't really bother me, we have shutters and all that. 3s are iffy for me though, I never know what the right thing to do is. Even if it is a huge storm, you don't really know EXACTLY where it's going to land until a few hours before, and you don't want to go for nothing, or like me go to Jacksonville only to have the storm end up THERE, that's just a lot of wasted resources.
I think we went ahead and stayed local, with his job and my sister and our social networks and everything familiar that we love, from the Keys to the Everglades, largely because the last two storm seasons have been so uneventful that we were able to delude ourselves.
Ok, let's take Exhibit A, "the double wammy":
No, those are not giant butane lighters coming to fry my entire state :p They're Gustav and Hannah, tropical storms that are gonna be hurricanes soon. Gustav is coming from down by Cuba, that generally makes for pretty mild storms that wind up in the gulf. It will probably hit poor old New Orleans right around the 3rd anniversary of Katrina.
Hannah, though? Exhibit B:
It's the ones that come from way out there in the ocean that get really strong, and that is the path that storms take when they plan on ending up, oh, right about...HERE.
Now, I am not really on about hurricanes the way some people are. I like thunderstorms, I can "camp out" with the whole family and have fun when the power is out. It's a nice excuse to eat a lot of junk food since we have to stock up on non-perishables.
But damnitt I just planted a bunch of flowerbeds! Two days of long hard sweating labor. Now I'm wondering if the brick borders need to come in, and, bah. Bah!
This is just shaping up to be another "all storms all the time" year like we had in 2005, and I don't want to deal with that crap as a homeowner. I mean, ok, we spend almost $5000 a year on insurance and so, ok, I shouldn't have to worry. But what about my belly cast? And our fresh paint jobs and nice furniture and original art? I'm just saying. I also don't want to have to deal with the "do we stay or do we go" dilemma - my personal policy as someone who went right through the eye of Andrew is that I DO NOT stay for a 4 or a 5. 1 or 2s don't really bother me, we have shutters and all that. 3s are iffy for me though, I never know what the right thing to do is. Even if it is a huge storm, you don't really know EXACTLY where it's going to land until a few hours before, and you don't want to go for nothing, or like me go to Jacksonville only to have the storm end up THERE, that's just a lot of wasted resources.
I think we went ahead and stayed local, with his job and my sister and our social networks and everything familiar that we love, from the Keys to the Everglades, largely because the last two storm seasons have been so uneventful that we were able to delude ourselves.
